“Freedom Truckers” Convoy

[jon-nyc]

Very nice, Jolly. Maybe you can drive up there and explain to them that states and localities and private businesses are responsible for almost every covid restriction they’ve experienced. I’m guessing most of them don’t work in federal buildings and airports or health care settings.

[Jolly]

IOW, you don't know anything about those people, who they are or what they actually think. You just give an airy wave of the hand and lump them in with the rest of the unwashed MAGATs or whoever you happen not to agree with at the moment.

Do better.

[LuFins Dad]

@jon-nyc said in “Freedom Truckers” Convoy:

Very nice, Jolly. Maybe you can drive up there and explain to them that states and localities and private businesses are responsible for almost every covid restriction they’ve experienced. I’m guessing most of them don’t work in federal buildings and airports or health care settings.

Ou do know that the beginning of this whole thing was a Federal border mandate specifically aimed at truckers and that mandate is still in effect? So yeah…

During today’s commute. The videos are lousy. Altogether I counted probably about 500 trucks. (Actually counted 140, but was only getting every 4th truck or so) The biggest and best stretch I couldn’t video (across the American Legion through the Dulles Access Road) but there were several dozen people on the 193 and GW Parkway overpasses and the trucks were back to back through 2 lanes. They kept traffic moving, leaving lanes open and allowing people to merge, but yeah, if they wanted to, they could have seriously screwed up Washington’s narrow streets and intersections…

Link to video

Link to video

[jon-nyc]

@LuFins-Dad said in “Freedom Truckers” Convoy:

@jon-nyc said in “Freedom Truckers” Convoy:

Very nice, Jolly. Maybe you can drive up there and explain to them that states and localities and private businesses are responsible for almost every covid restriction they’ve experienced. I’m guessing most of them don’t work in federal buildings and airports or health care settings.

Ou do know that the beginning of this whole thing was a Federal border mandate specifically aimed at truckers and that mandate is still in effect? So yeah…

For Canadians, sure. The US has no vaccine mandate for American truckers.

[LuFins Dad]

@jon-nyc said in “Freedom Truckers” Convoy:

@LuFins-Dad said in “Freedom Truckers” Convoy:

@jon-nyc said in “Freedom Truckers” Convoy:

Very nice, Jolly. Maybe you can drive up there and explain to them that states and localities and private businesses are responsible for almost every covid restriction they’ve experienced. I’m guessing most of them don’t work in federal buildings and airports or health care settings.

Ou do know that the beginning of this whole thing was a Federal border mandate specifically aimed at truckers and that mandate is still in effect? So yeah…

For Canadians, sure. The US has no vaccine mandate for American truckers.

They are mandating it for Canadian trucks and Canada is mandating it for American trucks. The two are hand in hand in this.

[Mik]

The whole mandate thing for truckers is stupid. Truckers are solitary creatures and come into extended contact with almost no one.

Yet we don't test illegal immigrants.

[LuFins Dad]

@jon-nyc said in “Freedom Truckers” Convoy:

@LuFins-Dad said in “Freedom Truckers” Convoy:

@jon-nyc said in “Freedom Truckers” Convoy:

Very nice, Jolly. Maybe you can drive up there and explain to them that states and localities and private businesses are responsible for almost every covid restriction they’ve experienced. I’m guessing most of them don’t work in federal buildings and airports or health care settings.

Ou do know that the beginning of this whole thing was a Federal border mandate specifically aimed at truckers and that mandate is still in effect? So yeah…

For Canadians, sure. The US has no vaccine mandate for American truckers.

Also, the only reason there aren't Federal Mandates is because the courts shut them down...

Beyond that, why were rioters burning Washington, DC over a police killing in Minnesota? Federal authorities still have a lot of sway over what happens at the local level.

[jon-nyc]

@LuFins-Dad said in “Freedom Truckers” Convoy:

@jon-nyc said in “Freedom Truckers” Convoy:

For Canadians, sure. The US has no vaccine mandate for American truckers.

Also, the only reason there aren't Federal Mandates is because the courts shut them down...

And if the court hadn’t struck down the OSHA rule, it still wouldn’t have applied to truckers.

At any rate these clowns are in the wrong city. Either their capital, their town, or Ottawa.

[jon-nyc]

These guys remind me of elite college kids protesting their oppression. It’s all performative. Pure attention-seeking.

“Look at me, Tucker, look at me!!!”

[taiwan_girl]

I see that @Aqua-Letifer was out yesterday enjoying a bike ride.

One biker slows down Truck Convoy

[Aqua Letifer]

@taiwan_girl said in “Freedom Truckers” Convoy:

I see that @Aqua-Letifer was out yesterday enjoying a bike ride.

One biker slows down Truck Convoy

That was absolutely me. Just a couple of differences:

1. It was today, not yesterday.
2. It wasn't in DC.
3. It was a beamer, not a truck.

Motherfucker almost hit a woman with a stroller and two parked cars because he didn't want to deal with the anguish of being behind a bicycle. (I was going 32 in a 25.)

Take any social situation, I don't care what it is. In that situation, upper-middle class people who think they're upper class are going to be the worst.